MSI X299 RAIDER (MS-7A94)

Performance Results


Gaming 109% UFO	Desktop 100% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 93% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (79th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 21 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 101%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	111% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	139% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (16%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Micro-Star MS-7A94
Motherboard	MSI X299 RAIDER (MS-7A94) (all builds)
Memory	5 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170720
Uptime	2.9 Days
Run Date	Dec 05 '17 at 22:32
Run Duration	163 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	16%

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PC Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7740X-$281 5,094 User benchmarks, average bench 87% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.3 GHz, turbo 5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	Memory 92.1 1-Core 158 2-Core 316 102% 189 Pts	4-Core 586 8-Core 863 90% 725 Pts	64-Core 808 50% 808 Pts
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 96%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3362) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 376.9 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	111% Outstanding	Lighting 148 Reflection 157 Parallax 147 120% 151 fps	MRender 119 Gravity 145 Splatting 115 102% 126 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 1TB-$210 25,365 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 953GB free Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4251 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 831 (B1) Unknown 99 99 14 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 50 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 83 (F1) Unknown 99 99 17909029469	123% Outstanding	Read 525 Write 501 Mixed 517 115% 514 MB/s	4K Read 38.6 4K Write 133 4K Mixed 47.5 190% 72.9 MB/s	DQ Read 245 DQ Write 344 DQ Mixed 173 165% 254 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 123% Great: 124%
WD Blue SATA M.2 250GB-$89 7,519 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 183GB free Firmware: X41110WD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 42 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 13 (A5) Unknown 100 100 1114122 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 27 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 241 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 4 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 63 53 227634577445 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 8589934594 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 61 (EA) Unknown 100 100 77 (F1) Unknown 253 253 74 (F2) Unknown 253 253 29 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	78.7% Very good	Read 491 Write 213 Mixed 221 68% 309 MB/s	4K Read 34.2 4K Write 84.3 4K Mixed 16.8 118% 45.1 MB/s	DQ Read 339 DQ Write 204 DQ Mixed 25.4 85% 190 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 78.7% Great: 100%
WD Black NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB (2017)-$135 28,136 User benchmarks, average bench 121% 169GB free (System drive) Firmware: B35500WD Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	139% Outstanding	Read 1,427 Write 368 Mixed 450 162% 748 MB/s	4K Read 43.9 4K Write 92 4K Mixed 17.9 138% 51.3 MB/s	DQ Read 544 DQ Write 362 DQ Mixed 29.2 136% 312 MB/s
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 139% Great: 144%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 3TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 99 9347272 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 53 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 4870 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 42 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 12 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 64 420675609 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 4 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 224 (C2) HDA temperature 25 40 68719476761 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -60249801228278 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3444133 (F2) Unknown 100 253 7132645	102% Outstanding	Read 180 Write 176 Mixed 156 128% 171 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 1.75 4K Mixed 0.18 85% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C16 1x8GB 89 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 1 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	37.6% Below average	MC Read 13.9 MC Write 12.5 MC Mixed 10 35% 12.1 GB/s	SC Read 11.8 SC Write 12 SC Mixed 11.2 33% 11.7 GB/s	Latency 63.9 63% 63.9 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 37.6% Great: 54%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 92%

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Motherboard: MSI X299 RAIDER (MS-7A94)

CPU
Core i7-7800XIntel $216Bench 78%, 22,334 samples	293x
Core i7-7820XIntel $375Bench 80%, 28,524 samples	184x
Core i9-7900XIntel $455Bench 82%, 19,432 samples	112x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	140x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	81x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	56x

SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	34x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	28x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	23x

RAM
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	168x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	134x
2x16GBUnknownBench 91%, 46,387 samples	103x

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Value: 74% - Very good

Total price: $795

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $30	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16